The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization announced that its partner organization LPI-Netherlands has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ECABO, Netherlands's Center of Expertise on Vocational Education, Training and Labor Market to include LPI certifications in their curriculum.
Read more »Vocational Education in the Netherlands adopts LPI Certification
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How to Turn Your Linux Box into a Home Theater with Boxee
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Boxee is a home theater PC software program that runs on Linux and has been designed to be used like an interactive TV, somewhat like the Xbox 360 interface. In fact it’s based on another program called XBMC which was originally created to run on the first Xbox consoles.
Read more »Why you should consider buying from a Linux-loading vendor
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I've been thinking about building my own very small machine around the dual-core Intel Atom processor with Nvidia graphics. Yes, I know that Nvidia is freedom-hating and all, but I think that for the small form factors such as Mini-ITX, Intel and Nvidia are heading in the right direction when it comes to compactness, power consumption and graphical sophistication.
Read more »Big Content condemns foreign governments that endorse FOSS
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In accordance with US trade law, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) is required to conduct an annual review of the status of foreign intellectual property laws. This review, which is referred to as Special 301, is typically used to denounce countries that have less restrictive copyright policies than the United States.
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How To: Change Timezone in Linux/Unix From
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In a linux/unix system, the time is the number of seconds elapsed since midnight UTC on the morning of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds.
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How do I run a remote Linux desktop in Windows?
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Recently I wrote an article, How do I connect to a remote Windows 7 desktop from a Linux machine, and was asked to show how to do the same trick - the other way around. You might assume this trick to be a challenge. You will be surprised how little of a challenge it really is.
Read more »A Return to Linux: Review of Ubuntu
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I have been a linux guy ever cince the pre 1.0 release days. I cut my teeth after the home PC on a real os with a login to a local BBS as an admin on a Unix machine, a Cromemco running Cromix. But about 5 years ago Linux became "unusable" for me at home.
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SCO's Bankruptcy Lawyers, Pachulski Stang: We'd Like to Be Paid
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Is there any way today could be any busier? Now, on top of the filings and rulings and the hearing today in the SCO v. Novell litigation, there were also some filings in SCO's bankruptcy in Delaware. Judge Gross did as SCO's trustee asked and reset the deadline for objections to the Yarro loan offer to February 26. Remember that ring around the rosie?
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Novell: Linux finally breaks even
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Well, that only took six years and change. As part of its discussion of its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 ended in January, Dana Russell, chief financial officer at operating system and systems software maker Novell, said that the SUSE Linux business was at break-even, what he called "a significant milestone."
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The (Involuntary) Unification of Linux
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One of the great things about Linux (on the desktop) is the wide variety of options available. Linux, as many would say, “is all about choice”.
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Best Android apps
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Looking for some cool apps for your Android phone? Google's Android phone OS is just a couple of years old but has already captured users' minds. And in the less that 18 months since the launch of the Android App Market, more than 30 000 applications for the platform have been added to the marketplace. This is not nearly as many as Apple's iPhone app store but it is increasing rapidly.
Read more »Free Software Must Not Fight Fire With Fire
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Further to the Linux Foundation's implicit acceptance of software patents, we present another new dilemma (OpenGov/OSFA)
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PTS Desktop Live 2010.1 Released
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After releasing Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 earlier this month and delivering the subsequent 2.4.1 update, we have now released PTS Desktop Live 2010.1 "Anzhofen" to the public. PTS Desktop Live 2010.1 makes it extremely easy to benchmark your computer on a completely standardized software stack from a Live DVD/USB environment.
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Microsoft Claimed to be Cheating in Web Browsers Ballot
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Microsoft's EU ballot claimed not to be rearranged at random and besides, it totally disregards the issue of Microsoft perverting the Web to make it MSIE-only
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Galcon Fusion – Review
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When Galcon Fusion was released for GNU/Linux I thought it was another of those simple games that I will play for 10 minutes and lose interest very quickly – but I was so wrong…
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